Growology

Zero Waste Lifestyle: Regrowing Food From Kitchen Scraps

Catherine Sherriffs

In the kitchen, a chopping block is a cruel place. Leftover bits and pieces of ingredients that don’t make the cut at mealtime are carelessly discarded. But did you know many of those scraps have more life to give, and that you can easily regrow food with them? Composting is most often touted as the…

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How Your Garden Grows: The Impact Of Sound On Plants

There’s a theory that you can give your gardens a boost by singing or talking to your plants. When my three-year-old learned about this recently, he began belting out a tune by Nirvana to one of my houseplants. Yes, Nirvana. I have a pretty cool kid. Like humans, plants are living things, and they need…
February 6, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs
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A Guide To Growing Edible Plants For Protein

A flexitarian is someone who limits his consumption of meat, but who is not exclusively vegetarian. The flexitarian diet can be practised in a variety of ways: some people do not eat meat every meal or regularly choose to make an entire day meatless, while others are vegetarians most of the time, but occasionally eat meat.
January 26, 2019
Albert Mondor

Moon Gardening: Myth or Method?

With the Super Blood Wolf Moon wowing stargazers around the world over the weekend, the celestial body has been getting a lot of attention lately. The recent total lunar eclipse doesn’t have much to do with gardening, but looking to the Moon for beautiful blooms and bountiful harvests is an age-old technique once again gaining…
January 23, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Brighten Up Your Indoor Space With Tropical Rainforest Houseplants

Tropical rainforests occur in parts of Central and South America, Africa and south-east Asia, though some are fragmented and cover a much-reduced area than they once did, due mainly to clearing for agricultural purposes by man. The Amazon and Zaire rivers run through the largest areas of lowland tropical rainforest in the world. In tropical…
December 17, 2018
Ann Sanders
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Guano: From The Bat Cave To Your Gardens

For thousands of years, from the time of the Incas through modern-day, bat guano has been used in farming worldwide. Within the growing industry, bat guano is often sold as a flowering-stage booster applied to increase the size and weight of fruits and vegetables.
November 23, 2018
Stoney Tark